Projects tagged
Sex & Gender
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A Girl’s Guide to Taking Over the World
Read more: A Girl’s Guide to Taking Over the WorldA page about inspirational and uncompromising women, that celebrates the women who have fought to change the world we live in. Please post up links, quotes, photos of women who inspire you or of world events you feel may be…
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Occupy Barbie Dream-House
Read more: Occupy Barbie Dream-HouseWe at “Left Youth [‘solid] Kreuzkölln” have been around long enough of this policy and its lousy consequences for us. But how to solve the problem now? The problem is clearly the capitalist society for us. Even at school you…
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Three Weeks in May
Read more: Three Weeks in MayIn May of 1977, artist Suzanne Lacy mapped every reported rape in LA for a period of three weeks. This project, aptly named “Three Weeks in May”, was part of an extended performance which Lacy utilized as a means to…
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Canadian Documentary Tackles Gender Violence, Race and Privilege
Read more: Canadian Documentary Tackles Gender Violence, Race and PrivilegeThe annual Toronto film festival Hot Docs is underway, and one of the featured documentaries tackles the tragic and gruesome story of serial killer Robert Pickton. The notorious murderer was responsible for the deaths of at least 26 women, many…
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Talib Kweli on Rick Ross’s date rape lyrics
Read more: Talib Kweli on Rick Ross’s date rape lyricsFollowing the controversy around Rick Ross’s date rape lyrics in his rap on Rocko’s song U.O.E.N.O, the rapper lost his contract with Reebok and was the target of the media, anti-rape activists Ultraviolet, hip hop activists, and even his fans.…
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YOU ARE NOT A SKETCH: Fashion modeling ad campaign
Read more: YOU ARE NOT A SKETCH: Fashion modeling ad campaignLexi Nisita from Refinery 29 writes in her article “Not A Sketch: The Most Creative Anti-ED Message We’ve Seen Yet,” “Brazilian modeling agency Star Models has recently released an eating disorder awareness campaign featuring your typical fashion sketch on the…
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Riot grrrl MANIFESTO
Read more: Riot grrrl MANIFESTORiot grrrl is a feminist punk rock movement started in the early 90’s, particularly in Washington DC, Olympia, Washington, and Portland, Oregon. Bands that follow the movement include Bikini Kill, Bratmobile, Jack Off Jill, Bratmobile, Adickdid, The Butchies, Heavens to…
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Topless Day
Read more: Topless DayWhat is GoTopless.org? We are a U.S.-based organization founded in 2007 by spiritual leader Rael and we claim that women have the same constitutional right that men have to go bare-chested in public. “As long as men are allowed to…
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Everyday Sexism Project
Read more: Everyday Sexism ProjectStarted by UK resident Laura Bates, The Everyday Sexism project is an open forum for women to record their stories of experienced sexism. The project was started as a means to show that gender inequality and sexism pervade contemporary society.…
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‘Women on Walls’ campaign empower women via street art
Read more: ‘Women on Walls’ campaign empower women via street artMaha ElNabawi Amid the bleak backdrop of a revolution-riddled Egypt, a beacon of positivity shone on downtown Cairo Friday during the launch of one of the most exciting, social-conscious street art collaborations to happen this year. “Women on Walls” or…